Officer accused of lying under oath

A Tulsa airport police officer was fired Thursday after he was accused of lying to Congress about the Oklahoma City bombing.

He was terminated for "acts on or off the job which would bring embarrassment, distrust or discredit to the city of Tulsa," said Kathy McNair, attorney for the Tulsa Airport Authority.

Reser claimed in a sworn statement he saw a video of a Middle Eastern man getting out of the passenger side of the bomb truck seconds before the April 19, 1995, explosion.

Reser said he saw the surveillance video in Washington while working as a consultant for the Navy.

Reser is accused of fabricating those claims and of lying about his background to the House Government Reform Committee.

U.S. Rep. Dan Burton, the committee chairman, asked Attorney General John Ashcroft last week to investigate "these false statements" and, if warranted, prosecute Reser.

The committee is looking into the possibility of foreign involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing. Burton, R-Ind., complained the committee cannot do its work "if people are allowed to fabricate allegations of government misconduct, fabricate their own credentials and work history to give their allegations credence, and then walk away without consequences."

Reser is a former Oklahoma City police officer. He could not be reached in Tulsa for comment.

Reser said he saw the surveillance video in Washington while working as a consultant for the Navy.

According to KTOK 1000 out of OKC, there is no record of this man ever working for the Navy and the Navy had no surveillance cameras in the area. The Navy is out at Tinker AFB with the Navy E-6's.

Here is a list of offices that were in the Murrah Building:

At the time the bomb was detonated, numerous federal agencies had offices in the Murrah Building: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF); Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); Army and Marine recruiting offices; Department of Veterans Affairs; General Accounting Office; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; U.S. Department of Defense; U.S. Customs Service; U.S. Department of Agriculture; U.S. Department of Transportation; and General Services Administration. The Federal Employees Credit Union and “America’s Kids” Child Care Development Center were also housed in the building. When the catastrophe occurred, about 600 federal and contract workers and about 250 visitors were in the building (Oklahoma Department of Civil Emergency Management, 1996).

Well, it should be a pretty simple matter to release the video tapes recorded that day, no? Let every store owner who had a video camera and state they turned over the tapes, and also inventory the cameras possessed by various government buildings, and be done with it!

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